FryingMan

long time falling asleep at bedtime, after "napping" right before bed where I had no problem getting to the snoring phrase >. 2mg melatonin fixed that.

Overflow night again.

early:

+ (fairly long) computer, code, "smc", sm/ directory, sm.h should go in the include directory, sm.c should build into a common library that I can re-use in other projects. Watching the console screen of a system booting up, have they replaced all the macros with function calls? I'm thinking I can definitely optimize this start-up sequence.

Piles of task sheets, that we need to have signed-off from the manager.

+ the office. My office is very large, lined with glass walls. I have one of the largest in the company, they must really value me as an employee. The bad thing is that it is located right in the entrance hallway from the outside. The hallway runs around two sides of the office:

Code:

------------------------|
       hall             |
--------------------    |
                   |    |
   my              |    |
office             |    |
                   |    |
                   |    |
                   |    |
                     f. door

The glass doors are shiftable. Frequently people would cut the corner by sliding a glass section to the side and cutting through my office. I thought about getting a roll of strong transparent tape and taping all the glass sections together.

There is an inner office within my office, where there is a desk (with a computer?). At one point I go in here, and close various doors partially and hang things so that the view from the hallway to the right to my inner desk is obscured.

I'm at a different place in the company, a section of the sliding glass walls come off its track and I'm trying to put it back.

I'm having a meeting in my office and a guy walks across it from the right, he's carrying his lunch. Something falls off his plate, he stops to pick it up, and I offer him to sit down at the table in the room and eat there.

My wife offers to put a large cross in the corner by the front door, she says it will protect me on my travels?. I don't think the company will allow religious symbols, even if I put it in my office, people would be offended.

(impression) walking through a place with small, lit decorations along the floor (?)

+ baby iron man: a mini (dark haired)/ young (5 yo ?) Tony Stark in the iron man suit. He was saying witty things. Then he was flying in the suit, and he popped open the cover of one of the many data sockets on the suit, this one was on his back so it was hard for him to reach it, and he inserted a data "shingle" and with some trouble closed the cover to the socket. I saw about 8 data shingles which were rounded like the cross section of a tree with concentric rings of different colors, and each one was numbered with a single digit.

middle:

+ garden: I'm walking through a garden with EK (grad school) and an unknown girl. She likes the plants, I like them too. They're small rose bushes with no flowers. I recall that I particularly like when the stalks turn a "peach" color at the base, which hasn't happened yet. I lean down to smell but there is no aroma (?).

+ refugee house: sitting at a table in a small garden outside a house. There are short, dark-haired refugees there, mostly women, sitting around the table. We're going to live in this place for a while. I think this may give me a chance with some of these women, maybe they'll come on to me. There are some people clowning around on the other side of the fence to the next property, something about "the arm," someone is waiving their arm up above the hedge that makes it looks like it's a floating arm moving around.

Inside, they talk about the sleep schedule. They trade off the use of the beds in 2 hour shifts. I'm sort of amazed by this: that would be terrible for dreaming. Then I think that perhaps they get a good WBTB by this by sleeping every 2 hours for 2 hours. I think about asking them about how this affects their dreams but I don't.

late:

+ galaxy: (DO), front screen of a space ship, the captain/narrator is guiding the ship through clouds of material, the job of the ship is to gather (gasses?) needed to help (sick people?) back at the base. He's focusing on clouds that are slightly green colored, and talking about the chemical composition of the various clouds

Back at base, there is an engineer who is helping the flight. The group is apparently rebels. The engineer is supposed to wait for them then activate some system when they ask him. The timing is important. But the big boss calls him early, and the engineer has no choice but to activate the system early.

+ superman vs. death: I am sitting with my BF MR in an improv circle. It's our turn to go, I'm very hesitant, should we go? Eventually we go into the circle and I have absolutely no idea what we're going to do. Eventually I decide on "superman vs. death", I'm superman. I start in with some angry dialogue about how in the previous dream the system was activated too early, which hurt the rest of the group. I shove "death" down past the ring of the people circle with my super strength and he falls to the ground. I say / think to myself, "I don't know if I can die, but in case I can, I'd better get out of here!" and I turn to the left and fly out of the ring at low altitude. I wait but don't hear any applause. Yeah, our skit was pretty weak I think, but I *did* fly out of there. I should have flown at higher altitude to make it more obvious.

+ stairway: I'm at the top of a stairway (in my childhood house? feels like it but the visuals do not match). I'm very heavy, and there is a very large step to make to get up on to the landing of the second floor. There is a precarious board barely supported on each side. I'm wearing a big/heavy backpack, and I take it off, I wonder if it will balance on the narrow stairs. I'm looking at the wooden banister along the left side, to see if it will support the cross beam or not. In fact the wooden banister flexes and bends both up and down, like a wooden accordion, so it does not support weight. The wood is thick, and stained a rich warm color like an oak hardwood floor. I think about getting some tools and nailing/fixing the banister in place.

+ gas station / scooter: driving down a street downtown, I'm driving a car and I go too far and need to go back. Can't, but there's an intersection ahead, I can turn left and then turn left farther on. I'm in the right lane and need to get to the left lane, so I head sharply across the lanes. There's a big long truck heading my way and I hurry to get ahead of it but it pulls to the left and seems to park. I head out into the street but now I'm on a scooter, my dad and my son (S2) are with me. As I turn they drop a bunch of their stuff on to the road. I tell them to hurry to pick things up. I drive again and take the next left which is right there and head up the street and into a gas station. I want to park this scooter and go get the car and bring it here, I'll put the scooter in the back of the truck. I ask S2 "Hey did we buy this scooter or are we just renting it?" my son answers a few times and I don't understand, finally I understand that we have it "free for 9(?) days," I think that's a good deal.

In the gas station at the register, I'm trying various cards at the reader and I'm having trouble getting them read, a female assistant is helping.